Race day always starts early and since the whole family with going to come with me it started even earlier. We were up at 4am so we could be on the road by 5am. My wife Julie did a great job wrangling the kids and their stuff that morning. Hard to remember that when I …
Continue reading My Second, First Race – Treasure Island 2008 Part 3
I would like to say that the first week served as a wake-up call for me and that I leveraged the experience that the training team offered – I didn’t. I did go out and get a bicycle (the one in the picture on the last entry) but even there I was foolish. A sane …
Continue reading My Second, First Race – Treasure Island 2008 Part 2
You can only have one “first time” or so we are told. While this is true in a thread counter, nit picking, letter of the law sort of way I am going to be stubborn (there is a shocker). I truly feel that in spirit you CAN have more than one first time. This is …
Continue reading My Second, First Race – Treasure Island 2008 Part 1
After writing about how I needed to push myself I decided that I WOULD push myself. So on Saturday morning I decided to go six miles. I have never done a training run to that distance. In fact the only times I have gone that far are when doing Olympic Distance and ½ IM distance …
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